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READINGS AND RECITATIONS 



Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES KEAN, 



ST. JAMES'S HALL, 






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URGENT STREET AND PICCADILLY. 



ON FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 26th, 1863. 







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COMMITTEE. 



His Grace the Duke op Newcastle, K.G., President. 



His Grace the Duke of Devon- 
shire, K.G. 

His Excellency the Earl of Car- 
lisle, K.G. 

The Eight Hon. the Earl Gran- 
ville, K.G. 

The Eight Hon. the Earl of Dun- 
raven, F.R.S. 

The Right Hon. the Earl Howe. 

The Eight Hon. the Earl Russell. 

The Right Hon. the Earl of 
Shrewsbury. 

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of 
London. 

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop 
of Worcester. 

The Right Hon. Lord De L'Isle and 
Dudley. 

The Right Hon. Lord Talbot de 
Malahide. 

The Right Hon. the Lord Chief 
Baron. 

The Right Hon. Lord Londes- 
borough. 

The Right Hon. Lord Vernon. 

The Right Hon. Lord John Man- 
ners, M. P. 

The Right Hon. Lord Lindsay'. 

The Right Hon. Lord Justice 
Knight Bruce, E.R.S. 

The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of 
London, M.P. 

The Right Hon. Sir E. Bulwer 
Lytton, Bart., M.P. 

Sir Charles H. Rouse Boughton, 
Bart. 

Sir C. Wentworth Dilke, Bart. 

General Sir John Burgoyne, Bart., 
G.C.B. 

Sir Robert Hamilton, Bart.,K.C.B. 



Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart. 
Sir Eitz-Roy Kelly, Q.C., M.P. 
Sir R. G. Mac Donnell, C.B. 
The Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, 

Q.C.,M.P. 
Sir James Prior, F.S.A. 
Thomas Bazley, Esq., M.P. 

B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P. 
William Ewart, Esq., M.P. 
E. S. Holford, Esq., M.P. 

R. Monckton Milnes, Esq., M.P. 

C. N. Newdegate, Esq., M.P. 
H. B. Sheridan, Esq., M.P. 
William Tite, Esq., M.P. 

E. F. Elower, Esq., Mayor of Strat- 

ford-on-Avon. 

C. H. Bracebridge, Esq. 

General Sabine, President R.S. 

Herman Mertvale, Esq., C.B. 

Daniel Maclise, Esq., R.A. 

W. C. Macready, Esq. 

David Roberts, Esq., R.A. 

G. M. Ward, Esq., R.A. 

W. Hepworth Dixon, Esq., F.S.A. 

Alfred Tennyson, Esq., Poet Lau- 
reate. 

Tom Taylor, Esq., M.A. 

F. W. Gibbs, Esq., C.B. 
James Dugdale, Esq. 

The Rev. Alexander Dyce. 
Benjamin Webster, Esq. 
J. P. Collier, Esq., F.S.A. 
The Rev. William Harness, M.A. 
Henry Johnson, Esq. 
John Wilkinson, Esq., F.S.A. 
Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. 
F. W. Cosens, Esq., Hon. Treasurer. 
Frederick Haines, Esq., F.S.A. 
J. 0. Halliwell, Esq., F.R.S., Eon. 
Sec. 



Stalls (Numbered and Eeserved), 10s. 6d. 

Unreserved Seats, 2s. 6d. 



Balcony, 



Doors open at Seven, the Reading will commence at Eight o'clock precisely. 

Children under Ten years of age will not be admitted. 

Carriages to be ordered at Ten o'clock. 

Tickets to be obtained at Mr. Austin's Office, St. James's Hall ; Mr. Sams' Royal 
Library, St. James's Street ; Messrs Chappell's, 50, New Bond Street ; Mr. 
Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond Street; and of Messrs. Keith, 
Prowse and Co., 48, Cheapside. 



Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES KEAN 



HAVE KINDLY CONSENTED TO GIVE READINGS 



AND RECITATIONS FROM 



SHAKESPEARE AND OTHER ENGLISH POETS, 



ON FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 26th, 1863. 



FOR THE BENEFIT OF 



THE SHAKESPEARE FUND. 



THIS WILL BE THEIR FIRST AND ONLY READING IN LONDON, AND THEIR 

LAST PUBLIC APPEARANCE IN ENGLAND, PRIOR TO 

THEIR DEPARTURE FOR AUSTRALIA. 



PART FIRST. 

Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES KEAN 

WILL READ SELECT SCENES 

EEOM SHAKESPEAEE'S HISTOEICAL PLAY OF 

KING JOHN. 

After the Reading a pause of ten minutes. 

PART SECOND. 
RECITATIONS. 

Professor Aytoun's " Execution of Montrose/ 7 Mb. C. Kean. 

Hood's " Bridge of Sighs" Mas. C. Kean. 

Lord Macaexay's " Horatius Codes" (abridged) Me. C. Kean. 



%* It is earnestly requested that all those intending to be present will 
enter the room before the hour of commencement, so as to avoid interrup- 
tion ; and that if any portion of the company should be under the necessity 
of leaving before the close of the Reading, they will avail themselves of the 
opportunity afforded between the Poems, when Mr. and Mrs. Kean retire 
for a few minutes. 




THE SHAKESPEARE FUND. 

iHIS Fund was established in October, 1861, to ac- 
complish the following objects, — 1. The purchase 
of the Gardens of Shakespeare at New Place. — 
2. The purchase of the remainder of the Birth- 
Place Estate. — 3. The purchase of Anne Hathaway 's Cottage, 
with an endowment for a custodian. — 4. The purchase of Getley's 
Copyhold, Stratford-on-Avon. — 5. The purchase of any other 
properties, at or near Stratford-on-Avon, that either formerly 
belonged to Shakespeare, or are intimately connected with the 
memories of his life. — 6. The calendering and preservation of 
those records at Stratford-on-Avon which illustrate the Poet's 
life, or the social life and history of Stratford-on-Avon in his 
time. — And 7. The erection and endowment of a Shakespeare 
Library and Museum at Stratford-on-Avon. 

During the short time that the Fund has been in existence, 
great progress has been made towards securing the accomplish- 
ment of its first object, — the preservation of the site and gar- 
dens of New Place. In fact, the entire property has been 
secured with the exception of the plot marked C in the plan at 
p. 13, upon which plot stands a large ugly brick structure, called 
the Theatre, but used chiefly for the County Courts, and only 
occasionally for theatrical or other entertainments. The Theatre 
is offered by the proprietors for the sum of £1100, and it is 
estimated that upwards of £1000 will be required to fence the 
gardens, and place them in proper order for the use of the public, 



8 THE SHAKESPEARE FUND, 

including a memorial to be erected at New Place to record the 
names of the principal donors. Thus the sum of £2100 is re- 
quired before the first great object of the Fund can be satis- 
factorily accomplished; and further progress is now arrested 
until more money is received. 

The amount already subscribed, although a small portion only 
of what will ultimately be required, cannot but be regarded as 
a satisfactory evidence of the interest taken in the matter by 
the public. It has been collected at a most unfavourable time, 
at a period when the public mind has been engrossed by foreign 
war and domestic calamities. Of ultimate success — unless, in- 
indeed, the reverence of the English people for the memory of 
their national poet is a mockery and delusion — no reasonable 
doubt can be entertained. 

The fulfilment of the Poet's last and dearest wish, it is 
pleasing to think, is involved in the accomplishment of this 
design. It clearly appears from Shakespeare's will that his 
chief object was to found a family estate, with strict entail. His 
estates were scattered after the second generation. Now, after 
the lapse of three centuries, it is in our power, should proper 
means be forthcoming, to gather them again together, and to 
entail them upon the People of England, who, to use the words 
of Mr. Knight, shall become their possessors and their " heirs 
for ever." 

Some other of the objects of the Fund are also in a fair state 
of progress. The voluminous ancient records of Stratford, con- 
sisting of about ten thousand separate documents, have been 
carefully repaired and bound, and a descriptive calendar con- 
taining an account of every record is nearly completed. In 
addition to this, the formation of a Shakespeare Library and 
Museum has been commenced in that portion of the Birth-Place 
which was formerly the Swan and Maidenhead. Numerous 
articles of great value are already deposited in this Museum, 
including the extremely valuable Shakespearian Collections of 
the late R. B. Wheler, Esq., generously presented by his sur- 
viving; sister. 



SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND. 




[IS EOT AL HIGHNESS THE PEINCE 
CONSORT 

The Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon 

The Most Noble the Marquis of Lansdowne, 

K.G. . 

The Most Noble the Marquis of Northampton 

The Lady Willoughby d'Eresby . 

Frances Countess Waldegrave 

The Right Hon. Lord Overstone . 

The Right Hon. Lord Vernon 

The Right Hon. Lord Monson 

The Lord Justice Knight Bruce 

Miss Burdett Coutts . 

William Tite, Esq., M. P. 

H. B. Sheridan, Esq., M. P. . 

Henry Huth, Esq., 12, Sussex Place 

G. L. Prendergast, Esq., 24, Lowndes Street 

A Lady, anonymously 

James Parker, Esq., Chelmsford 

Benjamin Webster, Esq. 

James Dugdale, Esq., Wroxhall Abbey 

Henry Johnson, Esq., 39, Crutched Friars 

The Misses Moore, Bolton Street . 

William Leaf, Esq., Streatham 

Everarde A. Brande Esq. 

W. G. T. Barter, Esq. . . . . 

T. J. Ireland, Esq 

Charles Rawlings, Esq., Chelsea . 

F. W. Cosens, Esq 

C. H. Bracebridge, Esq., Atherstone Hall 

John Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A. . 

Letter Z. . 

Mrs. Audrey 

Thomas Erskine, Esq., of Linlathen 

James Mackenzie, Esq., W. S. 

Charles T. Warde, Esq. 

Charles Kean, Esq., F.S.A. . 

Thomas Watts, Esq., British Museum . 

Archibald Weir, Esq 

A. Smollett, Esq., Cameron House . 

Henry Parnall, Esq., Bishopsgate Street 

Thomas Brassey, Esq., Lowndes Square 

George Ward Norman, Esq. . 



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SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND. 



S. R. Solly, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. 

Letters V. L. 

Miss How, Chelsea 

Messrs. Drummond 

Dr. Charles T. Beke 

Thomas Brooke, Esq., Huddersfield 

J. W. Butterworth, Esq., F.S.A. . 

D. D. Hopkyns, Esq., E.S.A. 

Samuel W. Browne, Esq., Clifton 

Mrs. Sotheby, Kingston 

Frederic Ouvry, Esq., F.S.A. 

W. P. Hunt, Esq., Ipswich . 

Messrs. Clutton and Ade 

Thomas Tassell, Esq., Maidstone . 

John Rogers, Esq., F.R.S., Sevenoaks 

F. W. Cosens, Esq., additional 

Frederick Haines, Esq., F.S.A. 

W. Ray Smee, Esq., F.S.A. . 

Richard Gunter, Esq., Lowndes Street 

The Rev. Alexander Dyce 

John Wilkinson, Esq., F.S.A. 

Mrs. Jackson 

Robert Lang, Esq., Bristol 

John Litchfield, Esq., Southwell 

William Harrison, Esq., F.S.A., Blackbur 

The Rev. Archibald Weir, B.C.L. 

W. H. Reece, Esq. F.S.A. . 

C. H. Elt, Esq., Islington 

Messrs. Dickinson and Co. 

Letters T. B. and W. H. 

Thomas Kerslake, Esq. . 

Mrs. Bolton, Aberdeen Place 

The Rev. William Harness, M,A.-. 

William Ewing, Esq. 

William Ewart, Esq., M.P. . 

B. G. Windus, Esq. 

Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq. 

Stephen Cave, Esq., M.P. 

B. Bond Cabbell, Esq. . 
F. W. Cosens, Esq., third donation 
W. O. Hunt, Esq. . 
A Warwickshire Man . 
Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq., second c 
R. H. Chambers, Esq. . 

C. D. Williams, Esq. . 
H. M. Beck, Esq. . 
Horace Mayhew, Esq. . 
Mrs. Ann Haines . 
William Haines, Esq. 
John Noble Esq. 
Andrew Gibbs, Esq. 
Henry Evil], Esq. . 
John Lee, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S. 
F. W. Fairholt, Esq., F.S.A. . 
The Rev. Professor Thompson 
J. Bailey Langhorne, Esq. 
J. G. Woodhouse, Esq. 
S. Christy Miller, Esq., M.P. 
Sir James Prior, F.S.A. 
John Weston, Esq. 



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SUBSCEIBEES TO THE FUND. 11 



E. H. Chambers, Esq., Hankow 5 

C. D. Williams, Esq., U.S. Consul, Hankow .... 5 

The Mayor of Birmingham ....... 1 

William Middlemore, Esq. ....... 5 

W. L. Sargant, Esq 5 

W. Scholefield, Esq., M.P 5 

Charles Shaw, Esq 5 

Sir Francis E. Scott 3 

Samuel Timmins, Esq 3 

George Dixon, Esq. ........ 3 

Frederick Elkington, Esq 3 

Eev. Dr. Gifford 3 

Thomas Phillips, Esq 3 

Sir John Eatcliff 3 

Arthur Eyland, Esq 3 

T. A. Attwood, Esq 2 

Professor Chamberlain 2 

Dr. Bell Eletcher 2 

John Jaffray, Esq. 2 

S. S. Lloyd, Esq 2 

W. Mathews, jun., Esq. 2 

T. B. Wright, Esq 2 

Clement Gibbs, Esq 2 

Edwin Lander, Esq. ........ 2 

Sebastian Evans, Esq 1 

G. A. Everitt, Esq 1 

Mr. Alexander Forrest 1 

T. C. S. Kynnersley, Esq 1 

Eev. G. B. P. Latimer 1 

David Malins, Esq 1 

Colonel J. 0. Mason 1 

A. F. Osier, Esq., F.E.S 1 

Samuel Thornton, Esq 1 

Samuel Whitfield, Esq 1 

Eev. S. Bache 1 

Henry Hawkes, Esq 1 

Professor Johnson 1 

Thomas Standbridge, Esq 1 

Eev. J. J. Brown 

Mr. John Mitchell 

William Fowler, Esq., jun. ....... 1 

William Westley, Esq 3 

William Hawkes, Esq 2 

Mr. Benjamin Eobins ........ 1 

Mr. C. Woodward, jun 1 

Councellor E. Smith . 1 

Mr. William Greenway . 1 

Eev. W. E. Smith 1 

Mr. Charles Bridges 1 

M. P. W. Boulton, Esq 3 

William Lucy, Esq 5 

Mr. Cabel Lawden 1 

Mr. J. W. Hornblower 1 

Dr. Eodington 1 

Mr. John Gilbert 1 

Dr. Evans 2 

E. L. Chance, Esq. ........ 5 

Jesse Bartleet, Esq 1 

E. Bartleet, Esq 1 

Thomas Avery, Esq 1 















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12 SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND. 

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W. H. Avery, Esq 1 

Tho. S. Stock, Esq 3 

Henry Van Wart, Esq. ......•• 2 

Mr. William Powell 1 

Mr. Joseph Warden ........ 1 

Mr. Joseph Smallwood 1 

F. J. Welch, Esq. 2 

Mr. J. S. Manton 1 

Mr. Joseph Timmins 5 

George Dawson, Esq. ........ 1 

Mr. Ball 

Mr. W. Harvis 

Mr. R. Harvis 

Mr. J. A. Langford 

Proceeds of an Amateur Concert, Birmingham ... 20 

Monsieur Laffitte ......... 1 

George Wright, Esq., F.S. A., and Mrs. Wright ... 2 

E. Holland, Esq., M.P. ........ 5 

Richard Cockerton, Esq. ....... 1 

Samuel Hey wood, Esq. ........ 1 

Rev. Charles Howes ........ 2 

J. Flower Jackson, Esq. ....... 

Edmund H. Miller, Esq., New York ..... 

H. M Beck, Esq. ......... 

Robert White, Esq. ........ 

J. Wigglesworth, Esq. ........ 

C. K. Probert, Esq. . 

Mr. F. P. Parke ......... 

Proceeds of Mr. Dillon Croker's Entertainment ... 9 

Mr. Robert Gibbs 

The Ven. Archdeacon Bissett . ...... 5 

W. S. Welsh, Esq. ........ 

Lady Molyneux ......... 

In Memoriam 

Miss West 

H. Hucks Gibbs, Esq., third donation . . . . • 1 

Thomas Stephens, Esq. 1 

T. F. Dillon Croker, Esq. ....... 1 

The same, collected in penny subscriptions .... 1 

H. Hucks Gibbs, Esq., fourth donation ..... 1 

W. O. Hunt, Esq., second donation ..... 1 

Henry Beck, Esq . 5 

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AUDITORS OF THE ACCOUNTS. 

F. W. Cosens, Esq. 

D. 0. Edwards, Esq., M.D. 

Frederic Ouvry, Esq., F. S. A. 

Cecil H. Russell, Esq. 

H. B. Sheridan, Esq., M.P. 

Benjamin Webster, Esq. 

The Auditors are nominated by the leading subscribers to 
the Fund, every person subscribing £100 having the option to 
act himself as an auditor, or to nominate one. The above- 
named gentlemen have been nominated by six of the present 
subscribers, the others declining to appoint. 

On the next page is a copy of the first report of the audi- 
tors. The balance then due to Mr. Halliwell has now been 
discharged by the liberality of the public. Another audit will 
take place as soon as there is a balance in hand of any conside- 
rable amount. 




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REPORT OF THE AUDITORS. 

J. O. Ralliwell, Esq., in Account with the Shakespeare Fund. 



Dr. 

To Subscriptions received to 25th of March, 1862 
To Interest returned by Vendors of the Great Garden 
To Balance due to Mr. Halliwell 



£ s. d. 

2868 10 

12 6 

709 17 2 

£3579 9 8 



By Purchase of JS"ew Place 

By Interest due to Vendors of ditto 

By Costs of Conveyance of ditto . 

By Purchase of Shakespeare's Great Garden 

By Interest due to Vendors of ditto 

By Costs of Conveyance of ditto . 

By Messrs. "Whittmgham for Printing . 

By Messrs. Ashbee for Lithographic Circulars 

By Messrs. "Waller for Ledgers and Cash-book 

By Bankers' Charges .... 



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We have examined the above account, and compared the 
same with the bankers' book and vouchers, and find the same 
to be correct. Dated this 29th day of March, 1862. 

F. W. Co-sens. 
D. O. Edwards. 
Frederic Ouvry. 
B. Webster. 



Subscriptions may be paid either at the Western Branch of 
the Bank of England, Burlington Gardens, London, or to 
J. O. Halliwell, Esq., No. 6, St. Mary's Place, West Bromp- 
ton, near London ; if by letter, enclosing crossed cheques on 
any London or country bank. 

To prevent mistakes, it is requested that subscribers will 
ask for receipts, should such not be forwarded within a reasons- 
able time after the remittance of subscriptions* 



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